{"id":138,"date":"2007-08-03T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/beautiful-katamari-demo-review\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T15:51:00","slug":"beautiful-katamari-demo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/beautiful-katamari-demo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Katamari Demo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I got my copy on the September issue, #74, of Official Xbox Magazine last night and on this month’s disc there is an exclusive demo of Beautiful Katamari. I’ve never played Katamari before so this was all new to me. At first I was not really impressed with a game where all you do is roll around and try to pick up larger and large objects, but once I got large enough to pick up a cow it got pretty funny. I can see how the simple gameplay could get really addictive as you try to get a larger and lager each time you play. The graphics had the artsy pastel style I expected from the videos and screen shots I’ve seen. The demo is only 3 minutes long, but you can play it over and over again if you want to. Personally, I think this might be a game that is better on a larger screen than on something small like the PSP since you can see more of what is around you to try and roll over. I was able to get my Katamari up to about 4 and a half meters which I realize is not super large, but I was happy with it since I was able to get the cow in there. If anyone else tries the demo let me know how large you are able to get so I have an idea of how far I need to go. I’m thinking I might end up renting Beautiful Katamari when it is released just to see how the multiplayer pans out. Playing this with a few friends over live could be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my copy on the September issue, #74, of Official Xbox Magazine last night and on this month’s disc there is an exclusive demo of Beautiful Katamari. I’ve never played Katamari before so this was all new to me. At first I was not really impressed with a game where all you do is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}